Hi Natty! How are you today, my love? I hope you are feeling good, and having a great time. How's the food over there? You can't live off coffee only, you know! Oh, coffee smoothie? I don't know about that. I think coffee and tofu would make a good blend. Anyway, it's just another average day over here for me. It's Sunday, and I clean my mother's bedroom every Sunday morning. I just got done cooking my dinner. There are countless of street vendors out there every Ramadan, selling food for breaking fast. It's a money machine. But nobody is selling what I want: "nasi lemak bilis telur". Rice steamed in coconut milk with crunchy anchovies, egg and "sambal tumis" (blended onions, chillies, and "belacan" (fermented shrimp paste") fried in oil until saturated). So I had to make it myself. I didn't have any coconut milk for the "lemak" part of the dish, but whatever. I didn't want to spend any money today. And I don't want to eat anything else, either. I don't have an endorsement budget, people! And God taught me how to cook, so I made the dish myself. Here's the irony, Natty: it's a common everyday dish except during Ramadan. No one sells it.
